Bethenny Frankel Spends The Holidays In Aspen After Announcing Split

Bethenny Frankel avoided her first
husband during a New Year's Eve bash.

After Bravo star Bethenny Frankel announced her split from husband of three
years, Jason Hoppy, just two days before Christmas, the
successful Skinnygirl creator headed to the mountains for some
time with friends.

Frankel was spotted in Aspen, Colo., where the 42-year-old
mother-of-one shopped at the Prada store, aprés skied
at The Little Nell hotel and dined with friends at local hot
spots.

On Christmas Eve, Frankel had dinner with a group at Italian
restaurant Il Mulino, where one source told In Touch, “I didn’t see Bethenny eat
anything, she looked really skinny.”

During a Christmas dinner the following night, another
witness noticed Frankel's slim frame at pricey sushi restaurant
Matsuhisa.

One Frankel fan tweeted about seeing the TV star in the
small mountain town:

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While Frankel didn't reveal her holiday whereabouts on
her own
Twitter account, she did drop hints such as posting this
photo of her friend's husband in ski-wear, writing, "This
is my friend's husband who came in the room & she asked if
his outfit was from Gymboree. So I finally laughed."Twitter.com/Bethenny

Frankel's self-deprecating humor during this difficult time
continued during the trip, as she posted a photo of her lunch
with the caption, "This is where I am in my life right
now":Instagram.com/Bethenny
Frankel

But Frankel wasn't feeling sorry for herself the entire trip.

On New Year's Eve, the TV star rang in 2013 with two girlfriends
at the members-only Caribou Club.

"She was wearing a black jumpsuit and was in great spirits," an
eyewitness tells Business Insider. "People kept coming up
to her to say hello but she stuck with two female friends. She
was smiling the entire time and seemed to be enjoying the party."

When a partygoer asked Frankel what she was doing in Aspen, she
responded, "I've been coming here for 20 years."

But one person at the bash Frankel did not engage with was her
first husband, Peter Sussman.

Just days after announcing the split from second husband
Jason Hoppy, it seems the current love of Frankel's life is her
two-year-old daughter, Bryn, who also made the trip to Aspen to
spend time with her mom.Twitter.com/Bethenny